Lake Wendouree Bird List
Prepared by BirdLife Ballarat, June 2014.
175 species
* Introduced species
# Species not recorded in at Lake Wendouree since 1990
® Seen only one or two times
Stubble Quail
Brown Quail ®
Magpie Goose #
Musk Duck
Freckled Duck
Black Swan
Australian Shelduck
Australian Wood Duck
Pink-eared Duck
Australasian Shoveler
Grey Teal
Chestnut Teal
Pacific Black Duck
Hardhead
Blue-billed Duck
Australasian Grebe
Hoary-headed Grebe
Great Crested Grebe
Rock Dove*
Spotted Dove*
Common Bronzewing
Crested Pigeon
White-throated Needletail
Fork-tailed Swift
Australasian Darter
Little Pied Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Pied Cormorant
Australian Pelican
Australasian Bittern
Australian Little Bittern
White-necked Heron
Eastern Great Egret
Intermediate Egret ®
Cattle Egret
White-faced Heron
Little Egret ®
Nankeen Night Heron
Glossy Ibis
Australian White Ibis
Straw-necked Ibis
Royal Spoonbill
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Black-shouldered Kite
White-bellied Sea-eagle
Whistling Kite
Black Kite ®
Brown Goshawk
Collared Sparrowhawk
Grey Goshawk
Swamp Harrier
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Little Eagle ®
Nankeen Kestrel
Brown Falcon
Australian Hobby
Peregrine Falcon
Brolga
Purple Swamphen
Lewin’s Rail ®
Buff-banded Rail
Baillon's Crake
Australian Spotted Crake
Spotless Crake
Black-tailed Native-hen
Dusky Moorhen
Eurasian Coot
Black-winged Stilt
Red-necked Avocet
Red-capped Plover
Black-fronted Dotterel
Red-kneed Dotterel
Masked Lapwing
Latham’s Snipe
Common Sandpiper # ®
Common Greenshank
Marsh Sandpiper ®
Wood Sandpiper ®
Red-necked Stint
Pectoral Sandpiper ®
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper ®
Ruff ®
Gull-billed Tern ®
Caspian Tern
Whiskered Tern
White-winged Black Tern
Silver Gull
Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo
Galah
Long-billed Corella
Little Corella
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Rainbow Lorikeet
Musk Lorikeet
Little Lorikeet
Purple-crowned Lorikeet
Crimson Rosella
Eastern Rosella
Swift Parrot
Blue-winged Parrot
Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo
Shining Bronze-cuckoo
Pallid Cuckoo
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Laughing Kookaburra
Sacred Kingfisher
Rainbow Bee-eater
White-throated Treecreeper
Superb Fairy-wren
White-browed Scrubwren
White-throated Gerygone
Striated Thornbill
Yellow Thornbill
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Brown Thornbill
Spotted Pardalote
Striated Pardalote
Eastern Spinebill
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
White-plumed Honeyeater
Red Wattlebird
White-fronted Chat
Tawny-crowned Honeyeater ®
New Holland Honeyeater
Brown-headed Honeyeater ®
White-naped Honeyeater
Varied Sittella
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
White-winged Triller
Crested Shrike-tit ®
Golden Whistler
Rufous Whistler
Grey Shrike-thrush
Olive-backed Oriole
Masked Woodswallow ®
White-browed Woodswallow
Dusky Woodswallow ®
Grey Butcherbird
Australian Magpie
Pied Currawong
Grey Currawong
Rufous Fantail
Grey Fantail
Willie Wagtail
Little Raven
Satin Flycatcher ®
Magpie-lark
Scarlet Robin
Red-capped Robin ®
Flame Robin ®
Rose Robin ®
Pink Robin
Horsfield's Bushlark ®
Eurasian Skylark*
Golden-headed Cisticola
Australian Reed-Warbler
Little Grassbird
Rufous Songlark
Brown Songlark
Silvereye
Welcome Swallow
Fairy Martin
Tree Martin
Common Blackbird *
Song Thrush * #
Common Starling *
Common Myna * # ®
Mistletoebird
Red-browed Finch
House Sparrow*
Australasian Pipit
European Goldfinch*
Common Greenfinch*